Philosophy, Humanity and Ecology: Philosophy of Nature and Environmental EthicsJ. Odera Oruka DIANE Publishing, 1996 - Всего страниц: 367 |
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Abbot action African philosophy animals anthropocentric Apartheid approach argue argument Aristotle Arne Naess artificial attitude basic become behaviour biological biosphere Bookchin civilization claim cognition colonial concept concern consequences consider countries created critical critique culture Deep ecologists Descartes dialectical domination dualism earth ecolocaust ecological economic ecosystem environmental ethics environmentalists epistemology ethnophilosophy European evolution example existence exploitation fact fundamental global harm Homo sapiens Hountondji human humankind idea ideal ideology individual industrial intellectual interaction interests issues Kenya knowledge Kwasi Wiredu living means metaphysical modern monism moral natural environment non-human object organic person political pollution population position possible practical present principle problems Prof question reality reason relations relationship respect responsibility scientific semiotic sense sentient social Social Ecology society species theory things traditional truth University Verwoerd view of nature Wakea Western Wiredu worldview
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Стр. 48 - If then God so clothe the grass, which is today in the field, and tomorrow is cast into the oven; how much more will he clothe you, O ye of little faith?
Стр. 89 - What is good?' my answer is that good is good, and that is the end of the matter. Or if I am asked 'How is good to be defined?
Стр. 116 - By destroying pagan animism, Christianity made it possible to exploit nature in a mood of indifference to the feelings of natural objects.
Стр. 32 - Consider the lilies how they grow; they toil not, they spin not; and yet I say unto you that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
Стр. 117 - Now if nature makes nothing incomplete, and nothing in vain, the inference must be that she has made all animals for the sake of man.
Стр. 116 - And God blessed them, and God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing that moves upon the earth.
Стр. 57 - Here knowledge of truth alone does not suffice; on the contrary this knowledge must continually be renewed by ceaseless effort, if it is not to be lost. It resembles a statue of marble which stands in the desert and is continuously threatened with burial by the shifting sand. The hands of service must ever be at work, in order that the marble continue lastingly to shine in the sun.
Стр. 160 - No, the object of government is not to change men from rational beings into beasts or puppets, but to enable them to develop their minds and bodies in security, and to employ their reason unshackled; neither showing hatred, anger, or deceit, nor watched with the eyes of jealousy and injustice. In fact the true aim of government is liberty.
Стр. 81 - What I relate is the history of the next two centuries. I describe what is coming, what can no longer come differently: the advent of nihilism.
Стр. 57 - Romantics and racists it was simply intolerable for Greece, which was seen not merely as the epitome of Europe but also as its pure childhood, to have been the result of the mixture of native Europeans and colonizing Africans and Semites.